Continuing with my walk through the book of Mark as i make short video clips with insights from each passage i read: Jesus frees the demon-possessed man a dead girl and a bleeding woman a prophet in his own town [aka unlocking the potential] Jesus sending out the twelve in twos to try out the stuff John the Baptiser loses his head Jesus feeds the crowd with not a whole lot of food. Jesus walks [...]
What i chose to focus on in this story that we have heard a lot of different preaching on, is the aspect of Jesus working out of the box in a sense and challenging the way things work and also a closer look at the response of people to God pitching up in a very clear way which both amazes and terrifies. Mark chapter 5 verse 1 to 20. The question we are left with [...]
The first four chapters of Mark have some great passages in them: the authority of Jesus the baptism of Jesus Jesus calling the fishermen the message is meant to be good news the lived out authority of Love seizing the opportunity Making time to pray Jesus encounters the leper Jesus heals the paralytic who is lowered thru the roof Jesus hangs out with the 'wrong people' the letter of the law or the spirit of [...]
With this one we finish chapter four and with that the first quarter of the Gospel of Mark. In this passage we take a look at Jesus who has fallen fast asleep while everyone else seems to be panic'ing about the furious storm that is raging around them. Take a watch as i speak about Mark 4 verse 35 to 41. to see the next video which deals with Jesus freeing the man possessed by [...]
so yesterday morning i come downstairs and i log into Facebook and am busy catching up on the nights mail when suddenly a word in another mail in my inbox catches my attention... it's a mail from my wife, the beautiful Val [tbv] with some bank details regarding flight money and my comment below it says, 'bitch, i want all the money' [cue me confused] so i start trying to work out what word i [...]
i'd love to make this sound like the cool kind of parable Jesus would have used, but i don't think i can. but if it was a fairy-tale type story it would begin with something sounding like 'Once upon a time...' and very quickly end up at the place of 'Brett looked at the path and it was blocked by the giant obstacle. He didn't know what to do next.' and depending on your perspective [...]
i like the english language. i like it to do my bidding! and so for years now i have played around with it, removing most capital letters [except for words associated with God like Love, Grace and Justice when i mean them in a God-related way way], changing nouns into verbs [see "vibe" and "vibing"] and other parts of speech, spelling words in my own unique, often phonetical way [thort for the week] or sometimes [...]
so the next step in the brett fish & the beautiful Val next americaland journey has taken place... after three great official times [as well as many unofficial times comprising many drinks of coffee, milkshake and tea or variants thereof] of sitting down with people we love [and vice versa] and talking through some of what Relational Tithe/Common Change is about we put together an invitation email to gather a group of friends and family [...]
so there was this email, and by now i think we're all up to speed with that - this was part of it: Brett-boy, you need to rethink how you spend your energy. And here I’m speaking in particular about the humor side of your energy. To take an example: Brett, let’s be honest: your youtube videos suck. Big time. And I don’t even see the purpose in it. Will you really stand before the [...]
this is one of my favourite pics ever and it comes from the days of cameras with actual removable film and this particular photo is clearly a mistake of double exposure, but one that works so powerfully. so the people worshipping in a weekly church service appear to be standing beneath the heavens and it creates such a powerfully artistic expression: ...which to me screams of something that is completely Unique. [For the previous Photo [...]